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If outsiders had to describe Hong Kong's film scene, they might use words like prolific, thinking of the seemingly endless kung-fu films that the city's studios have churned out. Or, if they knew their art-house fare, they could call it sophisticated, with a nod to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Syndrome | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

It wasn't easy for Twombly to draw this "badly." Borrowing from the Surrealists, he experimented with sketching in the dark. For a time he forced himself to draw with his left hand, which his travels in North Africa had taught him to think of as the one reserved for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cy Twombly: Radically Retro | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

Electric cars have been around for almost 170 years, but it's not just the limitations of battery power that have thwarted their more widespread use. Since Scottish businessman Robert Anderson pioneered the first electric carriage in the 1830s, most electric vehicles have lacked one of the key markers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New (Good) Look for Electric Cars | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

China's roughly 9 million Uighurs have long chafed under what critics describe as oppressive rule that reduces them to second-class citizens. Beijing, meanwhile, has trumpeted the threat from what it describes as secessionist groups bent on forming a breakaway state named East Turkestan. Some 60 people have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Video Threat to the Olympics? | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

How would you describe the reason for that mistrust? Is it hatred? Is it prejudice?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Overseas Test | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

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